African Americans WWII BS

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African Americans WWII BS

• Luke Raymond, Nick Brewer, Nick Nordhiem, Michael
  Calderwood,
• Bailee Fitz, Benjamin Marks

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Introduction

• During WWII, African Americans faced the harsh
  realities of war with the added difficulties of
  segregation and discrimination. They persevered
  through the years of war and made their mark on
  history. Their resilience is commendable when
  most men could barely handle the mindless
  bloodshed going on around them. We will highlight
  some of the greater roles that African Americans
  played in one of the bloodiest wars ever fought.

Slide by Lucas Duncan Raymond.
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Hardships Faced by African Americans

• Segregation in training camps
• Ate in separate mess halls
• Slept in separate barracks
• Duties included cooking, cleaning rooms and
  shining shoes
• Racism
• Had to sit in the last row of movie theaters
• Nick Brewer, Ben Marks

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Opportunities for African Americans The Tuskegee
Airmen

• African Americans comprised the 332nd Fighter
  Group of the 15th Air Force.
• They took on prestigious fighter missions such as
  escorting bombers and flying ground support.
• Nicknamed the Tuskegee Airmen, or the Redtails
  for the painted tails of their jets.
• Flew more than 15000 sorties
• Sixty-six Tuskegee Airmen died in combat.
• Slide Made by Michael Calderwood

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Opportunities for the African Americans

• 1,700 African Americans were in the first army of
  Omaha and Utah beaches on D-Day.
• The duties African Americans were assigned,
  though non-combat duties, were equally very
  important to the war, such as maintenance,
  transportation, and supply.
• Due to troop losses, African Americans were
  forced to be placed into more combat duties like
  pilots, tankers, medics, and others by 1945.
• Being in different kinds of ranks and positions
  now, they served with just as much honor as
  before being assigned so such ranks.
• Slide Made by Bailee Fitz

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Key Content TermsBy Nick Nordheim

• Double V Campaign-The African American community
  in the United States resolved
• on a Double V Campaign victory over fascism
  abroad, and victory over discrimination at home.
• Tuskegee Airmen-The Tuskegee Airmen is the name
  of a group of
• African-American military fighter and bomber
  pilots who fought in World War II.
• Order 8802- Signed by President Franklin D.
  Roosevelt on June 25, 1941 in order to prohibit
  racial
• discrimination in the national defense industry.
• National Urban League-The National Urban League
  is a nonpartisan
• civil rights organization based in New York City
  that advocates on
• behalf of African Americans and against racial
  discrimination.